The first year we tried a few different rates and combinations of Calcine® and Aqua-Yield® products within a 160 acre sugar beet field to now this year we will use Calcine® and 5 different Aqua-Yield® products on every acre of sugar beets we plant. We use the NanoCS®, which is in with Calcine® and our regular starter in sugar beets. Throughout the year, when we’re spraying Roundup®, we use the NanoPro® to help with the efficacy of that. Later in the year when we're doing some Cercospra spraying, we add in the NanoK® to all three applications to help boost the late season sugar percentage in the sugar beets.

We've tried 14 different combinations and we've never had any issues with volatility, crop injury or mixing, so that's been a key reason we've kept using it. The bottom line on it is that it's not adding any salt to the soil, which almost every fertilizer is salt based in some aspects. We've seen improvements in all our crops.

Sevrin Anderson
Anderson Farms • ND

NanoK® should be applied at 4 oz per acre with Cercospora and herbicide spraying at least three times during the bulking stage of growth. Timely applications of this potassium acetate nanoliquid™ provides that boost to increase sugars. Growers are consistently seeing a 0.5-0.75% increase in sugars with the addition of 4 oz of NanoK nanoliquid applied three times.

Tom Vander Heiden
St Biologicals • MN

Increasing sugar content in sugar beets has always been a challenge for sugar beet growers until now. Applications of NanoK® on sugar beets with other spray applications has shown to increase sugar by as much as .75 points. The payback for the producer has been a $17 investment and a return per acre of over $100 for the additional sugar harvest. 

Darcy Erickson
Erickson Custom Operations • ND